LIV REPORT OP THE BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY 



between these and the Liituamian gronj). These studies, made 

 under immediate instructions from the Director, have an impor- 

 tant bearing on the classification of the Hngnistic stocks, and 

 have ah'eady materially clarified knowledge concerning the 

 relations of a number of tribes of northwestern United States. 



Work ill hlhliofiraphii — Mr James C. Pilling was occupied 

 mainly in reading and correcting proof of the Bibliography 

 of the Wakashan Languages — now nearlv finished — and in 

 preparing a chronologic index of the same. Some time was 

 given also to tlie collection of material for the Shahaptiau 

 bibliography. 



Publications — The pi'inting of the Tenth Annual Report is 

 completed, and the sheets are in the bindery; the Twelfth 

 Annual Report is on the press, while the Eleventh is practically 

 ready to follow. On February 16 the Thirteenth Annual 

 Report Avas transmitted through the Secretary to the Public 

 Printer, and work thereon has already been commenced. 



The bulletin on the Pamunkey Indians, liy John Garland 

 Pollard, is completed, and the edition lias been delivered and 

 di.stribution commenced. Mr Pilling's Bibliography of the 

 Wakashan Languages is all in pages, and the revision of the 

 proofs is nearly completed. Ur Thomas' bulletin on The Maya 

 Year has also reached the stage of page proofs, and all of the 

 first and part of the second page proofs have been revised. 

 The liulletin on Chinook Texts, by Dr Franz Boas, is mainly 

 in type, and about half of the proofs lui^-e ])een revised. A 

 bulletin by Professor Holmes on "An Ancient Quarry in 

 Indian Territory," alluded to in previous reports, was sent to 

 press during the month. 



OPERATIONS DURING IklARCH 



The cliief work of the month has been in the office. Field 

 operations have been carried forward only by Mr Cosmos 

 Mindeleff" in the Pueblo country of Arizona, and by ]Mr Wil- 

 liam Dinwiddle, under the direction of Professor Holmes, in 

 Virginia. 



Work in sir/ii lavgiiage — Colonel GaiTick Mallery has con- 

 tinued the preparation of a monograpli on Gesture Signs and 



